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They’re spending über cash to fight city regulation. Uber and other ride-hail companies spent more than $1 million to lobby the de Blasio administration and the City Council between January and June, according to City Clerk records. The six months of spending…

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said drivers like the homophobic one who kicked a lesbian couple out of his car in Manhattan over the weekend just for kissing “don’t belong on Uber.” “I think they don’t belong driving period,” Khosrowshahi told The Post…

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A law professor’s Uber ride to the Denver airport turned into a full-blown nightmare, when the driver told her he was going to instead take her to a hotel and pulled off the highway, she claimed in a series of tweets aimed…

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New Yorkers may act tough, but we’re softies when it comes to tipping. The Big Apple is home to the nation’s highest average tip amounts for Lyft drivers — with residents dropping up to $1,000 in extra cash on any given night,…

Gov. Cuomo and the state Legislature have finally found a new revenue source for the MTA: the app-based for-hire vehicles that serve more than 600,000 riders every day, most of them on the narrow island of Manhattan. These cars, along with taxis,…

New York’s green taxis were supposed to be the great transit equalizer, bringing new and safer travel options to under-served outer-borough commuters. But five years after they first rolled out, the initiative is running on fumes as more drivers switch to black…

The state Legislature was nearing a deal Friday night on a $170 billion budget that for the first time imposes a surcharge on ride-sharing and yellow taxi rides in a large swath of Manhattan. The fee was scheduled to kick in on…

Mayor Bill de Blasio said Friday he is once again willing to consider a cap on for-hire vehicles such as Uber — three years after wimping out on the move. Hizzoner made the comments on WNYC radio Friday morning in response to…

In many ways, New York City taxi medallions were the first form of “congestion pricing” — something worth recognizing as lawmakers look to impose charges for driving into much of Manhattan. Wisely or not, the city sold exclusive rights to pick up…

NYC cabbies are being driven to the edge of financial ruin and despair as ride-hail apps like Uber and Lyft continue to take their customers. Last week, in the fourth driver suicide since November, Nicanor Ochisor, 65, hanged himself inside his Queens…

BOSTON — One promise of ride-hailing companies like Uber and Lyft was fewer cars clogging city streets. But studies suggest the opposite: that ride-hailing companies are pulling riders off buses, subways, bicycles and their own feet and putting them in cars instead….

Uber drivers nationwide who work for 12 hours straight will find themselves digitally blacked out from accepting any more rides for the next six hours, the company announced on Monday. The move is meant to prevent dangerous “drowsy driving,” company officials said….

The battle between Uber and Lyft is heating up, both on and off Big Apple streets. Three months after Lyft opened its first permanent office in the city, Uber is doubled down on its Gotham operation, signing a lease for its second…

Mayor de Blasio said Friday that his administration is working on new rules for regulating Uber and other for-hire vehicles — four days after a car service driver committed suicide in front of City Hall and blamed him and other politicians for…

Lyft is investigating allegations that its employees misused customer information, the U.S. ride-hailing firm said on Thursday. A current or former Lyft employee alleged in an anonymous online post that Lyft employees had tracked rides taken by their romantic partners and pulled…

see also Gov. Cuomo hedged Saturday on endorsing his own panel’s recommendations to charge a toll on all vehicles entering Manhattan below 60th Street. He instead focused on the part of the congestion-pricing plan that targets cabs and for-hire cars like Uber…

Uber co-founder and former CEO Travis Kalanick plans to sell 29 percent of his stake in the ride-hailing service, a news report said Thursday. The deal is part of a transaction with investors including Softbank Group Corp. and would bring Kalanick about…

Uber has agreed to sell its US auto-leasing business Xchange Leasing to startup car marketplace Fair.com, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The net book value of Xchange Leasing’s more than 30,000 vehicles was about…

Uber has agreed to sell its US auto-leasing business Xchange Leasing to startup car marketplace Fair.com, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The net book value of Xchange Leasing’s more than 30,000 vehicles was about…

Hey Uber, let’s go to the ER! Ambulance use has plunged at least 7 percent nationally since the ride-sharing app hit the market, according to a new study. Researchers compared the number of ambulance rides taken before Uber launched to after it…

Hey Uber, let’s go to the ER! Ambulance use has plunged at least 7 percent nationally since the ride-sharing app hit the market, according to a new study. Researchers compared the number of ambulance rides taken before Uber launched to after it…

Great news for clowns — terrible news for cabbies. Cars will be required to have three or more passengers to drive over the Williamsburg Bridge in rush hours during the upcoming L train shutdown, MTA and city officials announced Wednesday. see also…

A Toronto man was forced to shell out more than $14,400 for a 5-mile Uber ride, when a glitch in surge pricing caused his bill to skyrocket. The passenger posted an image of the overblown receipt — which notes his trip took…

Uber and Lyft are coughing up refunds to passengers who got slapped with surge pricing as they hopped into cars to flee the Port Authority bombing on Monday. In the immediate aftermath of the blast — which forced a complete shutdown of…

Uber and Lyft are coughing up refunds to passengers who got slapped with surge pricing as they hopped into cars to flee the Port Authority bombing on Monday. In the immediate aftermath of the blast — which forced a complete shutdown of…

Uber’s quarterly losses widened, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Tuesday, as the ride-hailing company wades through legal troubles and faces regulatory scrutiny across the globe. The Silicon Valley-based company’s net loss increased to $1.46 billion in the third…

Japan’s SoftBank Group said on Tuesday it was considering investing in Uber Technologies Inc but there was no final agreement at this stage. “If conditions on share price and a minimum of shares are not satisfactory for the SoftBank Group side, there…

Japan’s SoftBank Group said on Tuesday it was considering investing in Uber Technologies Inc but there was no final agreement at this stage. “If conditions on share price and a minimum of shares are not satisfactory for the SoftBank Group side, there…

Japan’s SoftBank Group said on Tuesday it was considering investing in Uber Technologies Inc but there was no final agreement at this stage. “If conditions on share price and a minimum of shares are not satisfactory for the SoftBank Group side, there…

Uber’s warring board members have struck a peace deal that allows a multibillion-dollar investment by SoftBank Group to proceed, and which would resolve a legal battle between former Chief Executive Travis Kalanick and a prominent shareholder. Venture capital firm Benchmark, an early…